I've been using mpv for all kinds of content and have only had good experiences with it. Only the control scheme takes some getting used to as you do everything with keybinds instead of a clickable interface.

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only issue I've had with mpv is that everything is darker. I've recently gone back to VLC.

[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1 and 2 Adjust contrast.

3 and 4 Adjust brightness.

5 and 6 Adjust gamma.

7 and 8 Adjust saturation.

You could try these keybinds if you want to

https://mpv.io/manual/stable/

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll give that a shot.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VLC is actually known to have problems with colors so you are probably just used to them being wrong.

[–] ninchuka@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got any links about this?

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is a notice on this wiki that contains some comparisons: https://thewiki.moe/guides/playback/

I'm sure you can find some more in-depth explanations but I will just copy/paste a quote I have seen from reddit.

uses wrong matrix for RGB conversion (results in wrong colors)

uses point upscaling for chroma planes

introduces strong banding

wrong chroma location (MPEG-1 for everything)

Old subtitle renderer that in more Typesetting heavy situation will say fuck you

all the other bugs (including some that haven't been fixed in years) make it equally unsuitable media player.

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